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Two Thousand Fifteen

Faculty Distinction

Celebrating the awards, honors and recognition of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences

The Faculty of the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University continues to be recognized with some of the world’s most prestigious scholarly awards and honors. The exceptional nature of the faculty is of course familiar to the students of the five schools that the Arts and Sciences comprises: Columbia College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of General Studies, the School of the Arts, and the School of Continuing Education. These students are the beneficiaries of the leading-edge research and rigorous pedagogy that are the hallmarks of a Columbia education and the work of our remarkable faculty.

Over the course of the past academic year, Arts and Sciences faculty members have been elected to the world’s most prestigious learned societies, have been awarded distinguished fellowships, and have received honorary degrees and countless other scholarly accolades. These honors and recognitions affirm the world-leading stature of our faculty and speak to the extraordinary research and learning environment that is Columbia University in the City of New York.

Carlos J. AlonsoDean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Vice President for Graduate Education

Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor in the Humanities

David B. MadiganExecutive Vice President for Arts & Sciences

Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Professor of Statistics

James J. ValentiniDean of Columbia College

Vice President for Undergraduate Education

Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor

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Department of Art History and Archaeology

Zainab BahraniEdith Porada Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art History and Archaeology

2015 Lionel Trilling Book Award for The Infinite Image: Art, Time, and the Aesthetic Dimension in Antiquity

President’s Global Innovation Fund grant for the project “Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments”

David FreedbergPierre Matisse Professor of Art History

Named director of the Warburg Institute of the University of London

Holger KleinProfessor of Art History and Archaeology

President’s Global Innovation Fund grant for the project “Istanbul Research and Documentation”

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Rosalind KraussUniversity Professor

Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres, Ministry of Culture, France, 2014

Avinoam ShalemRiggio Professor of Art History

Invited to give the annual Khalili Lecture at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

Department of Classics

Marcus FolchAssociate Professor of Classics

Recipient of the Chang-Chavkin grant for Global Core course development

Carmela FranklinProfessor of Classics

Elected First Vice President of the Medieval Academy of America

Guggenheim Fellowship

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Stathis GourgourisProfessor of Classics and English and Comparative Literature

Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award

Joseph HowleyAssistant Professor of Classics

2014–2016 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia

Elizabeth IrwinAssociate Professor of Classics

NEH Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Spring 2015

Karen Van DyckKimon A. Doukas Professor of Hellenic Studies

Hydra Residency, Athens School of the Arts, August 2014

Michael I. Sovern Affiliated Fellow, American Academy in Rome, Spring 2015


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Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Theodore HughesThe Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities

2014 James B. Palais Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies for Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom’s Frontier

Eugenia LeanAssociate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Delivered the Paul and Mary Ho Distinguished Lecture at the University of Texas at Austin

Feng LiProfessor of East Asian Languages and Cultures


Changjiang Scholar, bestowed by the Chinese Ministry of Education

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Lydia LiuWun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities

2014 Hong Kong Book Award for The Nesbit Code

Wei ShangWm Theodore and Fanny Brett de Bary and Class of 1941 Collegiate Professor of Asian Humanities and Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture

Pai Hsien-yung Chair in Literature, National Taiwan University

Department of English and Comparative Literature

Marcellus BlountAssociate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

President, Columbia College Phi Beta Kappa

Sarah ColeProfessor of English and Comparative Literature


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Patricia DaileyAssociate Professor of English and Comparative Literature


Brent EdwardsProfessor of English and Comparative Literature

2015 Guggenheim Fellowship

Farah GriffinWilliam B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American Studies

2015 Wendy Rosenthal Gellman Lecture on Modern Literature honoring Toni Morrison at Cornell

Sharon MarcusOrlando Harriman Professor of English; Dean of Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

ACLS Public Fellows grant for Public Books

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Edward MendelsonLionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities

2015 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Isabel Dalhousie Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh

Molly MurrayAssociate Professor of English and Comparative Literature


Robert O’MeallyZora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Provost Hybrid Learning Course Redesign and Delivery grant for “The Harlem Renaissances”

Austin QuigleyBrander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature; Dean Emeritus of Columbia College

2015 Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching

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Joseph SlaughterAssociate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Public Voices Fellowship, Columbia University, 2014–15

Gayatri SpivakUniversity Professor

Doctor of Letters (honoris causa), Sorbonne 8, Paris, November 2014

Doctor of Letters (honoris causa), Presidency University, Calcutta, December 2014

Doctor of Letters (honoris causa), Yale University, May 2015

Doctor of Letters (honoris causa), University of Ghana–Legon, June 2015

Delivered keynote for the 50th anniversary of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain at New College, Oxford

Dennis TenenAssistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

President’s Global Innovation Fund grant for the project “Digital Justice: Public Discourse, Censorship, and the Technologies of Dissent”

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Colm TóibínIrene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities

Named Chair of the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature

Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame

Folio Prize nomination for his novel Nora Webster

Department of French and Romance Philology

Souleymane Bachir DiagneProfessor of French and Romance Philology

Grand-Croix de l’Ordre du Mérite, Senegal


Madeleine DobieProfessor of French and Romance Philology

President’s Global Innovation Fund grant to establish the Middle-East/North Africa Summer Institute in Amman and Paris


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Pierre ForceProfessor of French and Romance Philology

Fellow, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, 2014–15

Emmanuelle SaadaAssociate Professor of French and Romance Philology


Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study (School of Historical Studies)

Eliza ZingesserAssistant Professor of French and Romance Philology

Solmsen Fellowship, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Institute for Research in the Humanities, 2014–15



Department of Germanic Languages

Dorothea von MückeProfessor of Germanic Languages


Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures

Angelina Craig-FlorezSenior Lecturer in Spanish

Provost Hybrid Learning Course Redesign and Delivery grant for “Redesign: Spain in Its Art”

Patricia GrieveNancy and Jeffrey Marcus Professor of the Humanities


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Claudio LomnitzCampbell Family Professor of Anthropology

LASA Mexico Humanities Book Award for his book The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón

Gustavo Pérez-FirmatDavid Feinson Professor of Humanities

Honorable Mention, 2014 Accents Publishing Chapbook Contest for “The Mayberry Chronicles”

Jesús Rodríguez-VelascoProfessor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures


Alessandra RussoAssociate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures

MacDonald Research Fellowship, Columbia University, 2014

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Department of Middle Eastern, South Asia, and African Studies

Taoufik Ben-AmorGordon Gray Jr. Senior Lecturer in Arabic Studies


Sheldon PollockArvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies

Reinhardt Kuhn Memorial Lecture, Brown University, February 2015

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2014)

President’s Global Innovation Fund grant for the “Columbia Global Humanities Project”

D. F. McKenzie Memorial Lecture, Oxford University, March 2015

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Department of Music

Susan BoyntonProfessor of Music

Provost Hybrid Learning Course Redesign and Delivery grant for “Using Music Visualization to Enrich Student Learning in Music Humanities”


Kevin FellezsAssistant Professor of Music

Tsunoda Fellowship

Bradford GartonProfessor of Music


Provost Hybrid Learning Course Redesign and Delivery grant for “Using Music Visualization to Enrich Student Learning in Music Humanities”

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Georg Friedrich HaasMacDowell Professor of Music

Hauptkomponist (main composer) at the festival Wien Modern Vienna, October/November 2014

Composer in residence, Winnipeg New Music Festival, January/February 2015

Fred LerdahlFritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition

Composer in residence, Musica Nova Helsinki Festival, February 2015

George LewisEdwin H. Case Professor of Music


2015 Guggenheim Fellowship

Honorary Degree, Doctor of Music, University of Edinburgh

Jeffrey MilarskySenior Lecturer in Discipline

Ditson Conductor’s Award

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Benjamin SteegeAssistant Professor of Music

2014 Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Music Theory for Helmholtz and the Modern Listener

Department of Philosophy

David AlbertFrederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy


Justin Clarke-DoaneAssistant Professor of Philosophy

Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2014–15

Philip KitcherJohn Dewey Professor of Philosophy

Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin

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Tamar LandoAssistant Professor of Philosophy

Provost’s Grant for Junior Faculty Who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University

Christia MercerGustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy

ACLS Fellowship

Folger Library Fellowship


Michele Moody-AdamsJoseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory


Bishop Hurst Honorary Lecturer at American University

Carol RovaneProfessor of Philosophy


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Achille VarziProfessor of Philosophy

Best paper award at the Eighth Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 25, 2014)

Katja VogtProfessor of Philosophy

Residential Fellowship at Princeton Humanities Council, awarded for Fall 2015

Department of Slavic Languages

Boris GasparovBoris Bakhmeteff Professor of Russian and East European Studies

Appointed director of the new program in literature at the Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg

Valentina IzmirlievaAssociate Professor of Slavic Languages

Distinguished Article Prize of the Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture for the article “Christian Hajjis—The Other Orthodox Pilgrims to Jerusalem”

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Liza KnappAssociate Professor of Slavic Languages


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Department of Astronomy

David KippingAssistant Professor of Astronomy

Selected as one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10” young scientists for 2015

Jeremiah OstrikerProfessor of Astronomy

2015 Gruber Cosmology Prize

Joseph PattersonProfessor of Astronomy

Minor Planet 8794 named in his honor (Joepatterson)

Jacqueline van GorkomRutherfurd Professor of Astronomy

Named Rutherfurd Chair in Astronomy

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Department of Biological Sciences

Martin ChalfieUniversity Professor

Honorary Doctorate, National University of Brasilia, 2014

John HuntProfessor of Biological Sciences

Agilent Scholars Award, 2014

Darcy KelleyHarold Weintraub Professor of Biological Sciences

Fellow, International Society for Neuroethology, 2014

Frog Acoustic Communication Honoree, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, August 2014

Marine Biological Laboratory Research Award, 2015

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James ManleyJulian Clarence Levi Professor of the Life Sciences

RNA Day Symposium honoring James Manley, Northwestern University

Chinese Academy of Sciences Einstein Professorship (awarded October 2014)

Dana Pe’erAssociate Professor of Biological Sciences

NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, 2014

SU2C Phil Sharp Award, 2014

Carol PrivesDa Costa Professor of Biology

Elected Fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Academy, 2015

Ozgur SahinAssociate Professor of Biological Sciences and Physics

Faculty Mentoring Award, selected by the graduate students at Columbia

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Brent StockwellProfessor of Biological Sciences and Chemistry

2015 Great Teacher of Columbia College Award, Society of Columbia Graduates

Liang TongWilliam R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences

Named William R. Kenan Jr. Professor, February 2015

Rafael YusteProfessor of Biology and Neuroscience

Jiménez Diaz Award, Fundación Conchita Rábago de Jiménez Díaz

Department of Chemistry

Kenneth EisenthalMark Hyman Professor of Chemistry

ACS National Award, Colloid and Surface Chemistry, 2014

ACS Symposium honoring Kenneth Eisenthal, Dallas, March 2014

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Gerard ParkinProfessor of Chemistry


Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Ryan AbernatheyAssistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

NASA New Investigator Early Career Award

Wallace BroeckerNewberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Honorary Doctorate, Harvard University

Honorary Doctorate, Oxford University

Honorary Doctorate, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Dean’s Award for Distinguished Achievement, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

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Mark CaneG. Unger Vetlesen Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences and Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics

Fellow, The Oceanography Society, 2015

Peter deMenocalProfessor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

AGU Cesare Emiliani Leturer, 2014

Sonya DyhrmanAssociate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Simons Foundation SCOPE Investigator Award

Göran EkströmProfessor of Earth and Enviromental Sciences

Gutenberg Medal, European Geosciences Union, 2015

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Arnold GordonProfessor of Earth and Enviromental Sciences

Houghton Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Spring 2015

Peter KelemenArthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Meredith NettlesAssociate Professor of Earth and Enviromental Sciences

Seismological Society of America Distinguished Lecturer, 2014

Paul OlsenArthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Thomas Jefferson Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Natural Science

President’s International Fellowship, Chinese Academy of Science

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Terry PlankArthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Received Honorary Degree from Dartmouth College, Spring 2015

Lorenzo PolvaniProfessor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and of Applied Mathematics

Named a 2015 Fellow of the American Meteorological Society

Christopher ScholzProfessor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

2015 Harry Fielding Reid Medal, Seismological Society of America

Tiffany ShawAssistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship

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Adam SobelProfessor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics

Atmospheric Science Librarians International, 2015 Choice Award for the book Storm Surge

AXA Research Fund Award in Climate and Extreme Weather

Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award from the American Geophysical Union

Sean SolomonWilliam B. Ransford Professor of Earth and Planetary Science

National Medal of Science

Space Pioneer Award from the National Space Society

Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology

Marina CordsProfessor of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology and of Anthropology

Alumnae Gallery Honoree, Stuart Country Day School, Princeton, New Jersey, 2014

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Ruth DeFriesDenning Family Professor of Sustainable Development

Distinguished Scholarship Award, American Association of Geographers

Shahid NaeemProfessor of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology

ISI Highly Cited Author 2014, “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds”

Maria UriarteProfessor of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology

Leopold Leadership Fellowship, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, 2015

Science without Borders Fellowship, National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development, Brazil

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Department of Mathematics

Ivan CorwinAssociate Professor of Mathematics

Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, October 2014

Brian GreeneProfessor of Mathematics and Physics

John Bahcall Memorial Lecturer, 2014

Frontiers of Science Award, Society of Cosmetic Chemists, 2014

Michael HarrisProfessor of Mathematics

Workshop dedicated to Michael Harris, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, December 2014

Jennifer HomRitt Assistant Professor of Mathematics


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Mu-Tao WangProfessor of Mathematics

Simons Fellow in Mathematics

Department of Physics

Brian ColeProfessor of Physics

Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award, 2015

Cory DeanAssistant Professor of Physics

Lee Osheroff Richardson Prize, 2015

International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Junior Scientist Award in Low Temperature Physics, 2014

Miklos GyulassyProfessor of Physics

Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics of American Physical Society (APS), April 2015

Hungarian Government Order of Merit Officer’s Cross

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Bradley JohnsonAssistant Professor of Physics

Buchalter Cosmology Prize, second prize, shared with UCSD for the paper “Precision Tests of Parity Violation over Cosmological Distances”

Amber MillerProfessor of Physics; Dean of Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society

Rachel RosenAssistant Professor of Physics

Emmy Noether Visiting Fellowship at the Perimeter Institute

William ZajcI. I. Rabi Professor of Physics

Named Rabi Chair in Physics, February 2015

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Department of Psychology

Carl HartAssociate Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry)

Fast Company’s Most Creative People

University of Wyoming Alumni Award

Don HoodJames F. Bender Professor in Psychology; Professor of Ophthalmic Sciences (in Ophthalmology)

Innovator’s Award, Connecticut Society of Eye Physicians, 2015

Research Excellence Award, Optometric Glaucoma Society, 2014

Alcon Research Institute Award

Dean MobbsAssistant Professor of Psychology

Association for Psychological Science (APS) Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, 2015

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Valerie Purdie-VaughnsAssociate Professor of Psychology

Provost’s Grant for Junior Faculty Who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University, 2015

Elected Fellow of the National Academies of Sciences in Education

Society for Personality and Social Psychology Cialdini Award

Rae SilverHelene L. and Mark N. Kaplan Professor of Natural and Physical Sciences

Daniel S. Lehrman Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015

Nim TottenhamAssistant Professor of Psychology

American Psychological Association’s 2015 Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology

Provost’s Grant for Junior Faculty Who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University, 2014

Elke WeberJerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business and Professor of Psychology

“In Honor of” citation by Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS)

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Department of Statistics

John CunninghamAssistant Professor of Statistics


Richard DavisHoward Levene Professor of Statistics

President-Elect, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, July 2014–2015

Hotelling Lectures, March 2014

Andrew GelmanProfessor of Statistics and Political Science

Statistician of the Year, Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association

Elected Member, International Statistical Institute

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Department of Anthropology

Lila Abu-LughodJoseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science

Best of 2014 on the Middle East by Foreign Affairs for her book Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

Brian BoydLecturer in the Discipline of Anthropology

President’s Global Innovation Fund grant for the project “Building Community Anthropology across the Jordan Valley”

Zoe CrosslandAssociate Professor of Anthropology

President’s Global Innovation Fund grant for the project

“Building Community Anthropology across the Jordan Valley”

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Ralph HollowayProfessor of Anthropology

Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Mahmood MamdaniHerbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology

President’s Global Innovation Fund grant for the project “Ifriqiyya: The Indian Ocean and Trans-African Slavery Networks”

Rosalind MorrisProfessor of Anthropology

Rockefeller Foundation Residential Fellowship at Bellagio

CEC ArtsLink Fellowship

Audra SimpsonAssociate Professor of Anthropology

Best First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, for Mohawk Interruptus

Honorable Mention, 2014 Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Book Prize, Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Section of the American Anthropological Association, for Mohawk Interruptus

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Department of Economics

Jushan BaiProfessor of Economics

Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers, 2014

Patrick BoltonBarbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business and Professor of Economics

FIR-PRI Award 2014 for best article for “Loyalty Shares”

Pierre-André ChiapporiE. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics

Elected Corresponding Member, Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Paris, 2015

Onorato Castellino Annual Lecture, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, November 2014

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Graciela ChichilniskyProfessor of Economics

“Global Leadership” Prize, American Renewable Energy Institute, Aspen, Colorado, August 2014

CEO of the Year in Sustainability by IAIR (International Alternative Investment Review), 2015

Donald DavisRagnar Nurkse Professor of Economics

Provost Hybrid Learning Course Redesign and Delivery grant for “The Economics of New York City”

Supreet Kaur AnandAssistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics

President’s Global Innovation Fund grant for the project “Building Human Capital in Developing Countries: An Interdisciplinary Research Program with Adaptive Technologies”

Qingmin LiuAssociate Professor of Economics

Excellence in Referee award, American Economic Review, 2014

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Bentley MacLeodSami Mnaymneh Professor of Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs

Excellence in Referee award, American Economic Review, 2014

Suresh NaiduAssistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics

Sloan Research Fellow

Emi NakamuraAssociate Professor of Business and Economics

Elaine Bennett Research Prize, 2014

2014 IMF Generation Next: Top 25 Economists Under 45

Sloan Research Fellowship, 2014–2016

Serena NgProfessor of Economics

Econometric Theory Multa Scripsit Award

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Edmund PhelpsMcVickar Professor of Political Economy

Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, Yale University, October 14, 2014

China Friendship Award, Beijing, China, September 30, 2014

Bernard SalanieProfessor of Economics

Provost Hybrid Learning Course Redesign and Delivery grant for “Mathematical Methods for Economists”

Jose ScheinkmanEdwin W. Rickert Professor of Economics

Ninth annual prize for innovative quantitative applications to economics and finance, given jointly by the CME Group and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)

Jonathan VogelAssistant Professor of Economics

Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs (Porsche Fellowship), Kiel Institute for the World Economy

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David WeinsteinCarl Sumner Shoup Professor of Japanese Economics

Appointed to the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC)

Department of History

Manan AhmedAssistant Professor of History

Provost Hybrid Learning Course Redesign and Delivery grant for “Borderlands: A Geo-Spatial Seminar in Digital History”

Alhelí Alvarado-DíazLecturer in History

Provost Hybrid Learning Course Redesign and Delivery grant for “Shooting the Core: Reinterpreting Core Texts through Film, Documentary and Reportage”

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Charles ArmstrongThe Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences

2014 John K. Fairbank Prize, American Historical Association

Elisheva CarlebachSalo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society

Association for Jewish Studies, Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for best book in past three years in fields of Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History for Palaces of Time

Matthew ConnellyProfessor of History

Provost Hybrid Learning Course Redesign and Delivery grant for “Flipping International and Global History”

Marwa ElshakryAssociate Professor of History

Morris D. Forkosch Prize for Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860–1950

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Eric FonerDeWitt Clinton Professor of History

Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Dartmouth College, 2014

Gold Medal, National Institute of Social Sciences, 2014

Hilary HallettAssistant Professor of History


Kenneth JacksonJacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences

Elected President of the New York Academy of History, 2014

Karl JacobyProfessor of History

Grand Prix des Rendez-vous de l’Histoire, France, October 2014

Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer

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Rebecca KobrinRussell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History



Mark MazowerIra D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies

Honorary Doctorate, University of Athens (Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences)

Małgorzata MazurekAssociate Professor of Polish Studies

2014–18 Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant for her project “Socialism Goes Global: Cold War Connections Between the ‘Second’ and ‘Third Worlds’ 1945–1991”

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Mae NgaiLung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History

President’s Global Innovation Fund grant for the project “Colonization and Decolonialization in the Making of the Modern World: An Intensive Summer Course Taught in Rio de Janeiro and New Delhi”

Invited to give the University Lecture, February 12, 2015

Susan PedersenJames P. Shenton Professor of the Core Curriculum

President’s Global Innovation Fund grant for the project “Enhancing the Research Component of the History Major”

David RosnerRonald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Professor of History

John McGovern Prize of Sigma Xi, Honorary Science Society

Congressional Certificate of Appreciation from U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

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Pamela SmithSeth Low Professor of History

Elected Vice President of the Renaissance Society of America

Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

Dean’s Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities, Columbia University Medical School

President’s Global Innovation Fund grant for the project “Enhancing the Research Component of the History Major”

Awarded a Mellon grant to establish the Columbia Center for Science and Society

Rhiannon StephensAssistant Professor of History

Honourable Mention, African Studies Association Bethwell A. Ogot Prize for the best book on East African Studies for A History of African Motherhood: The Case of Uganda, 700–1900

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Department of Political Science

Christopher BlattmanAssociate Professor of International and Public Affairs and of Political Science

President’s Global Innovation Fund grant for the project “The Cognitive Consequences of Political Violence”

Robert Keohane Award for best paper by an nontenured scholar in International Organization

Allison CarnegieAssistant Professor of Political Science

Winner of the 2014 Global Development Network and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Next Horizons Essay Contest


Daniel CorstangeAssistant Professor of Political Science and of International and Public Affairs

President’s Global Innovation Fund grant for the project “Refugee Perceptions of International Intervention in the Syrian Civil War”

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Michael DoyleUniversity Professor

Named University Professor

Timothy FryeMarshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy

Honorable Mention, National Prize in Applied Economics, 2014, New Economics School/Higher Economics School

Donald GreenProfessor of Political Science

Pi Sigma Alpha Award for best paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association

Named 2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, in the inaugural class of a major annual fellowship program

Robert H. Durr Award for the best paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, applying quantitative methods to a substantive problem

Fredrick HarrisProfessor of Political Science

Non-Resident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Provost Leadership Fellow, Columbia University

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John HuberProfessor of Political Science

President’s Global Innovation Fund grant for the project “Study of Democratic Engineering in the Middle East”

Macartan HumphreysProfessor of Political Science

2014 American Political Science Association Sage Prize for best paper in qualitative methodology

2014 American Political Science Assocation’s Information Technology and Politics Section, Best Information Technology & Politics Article Award

Nihal Turkuler IsikselAssistant Professor of Political Science

2014–2015 LAPA/Perkins Fellow at Princeton University’s Law and Public Affairs Program

Robert JervisAdlai E. Stevenson Professor and Professor of International and Public Affairs

Honorary Degree, University of Venice

Elected to the American Philosophical Society

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Ira KatznelsonRuggles Professor of Political Science and History

Harold Lasswell Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science

John Jay Award, Columbia College

Isabela MaresProfessor of Political Science

Best paper in political economy presented at the Annual Meeting of Latin American Political Economy Network (REPAL) in Santiago, Chile, 2014

Lawrence Longley Award for best article on representation and electoral systems, given by the APSA Representation and Electoral Systems Section for “The Origins of Proportional Representation”

Maria MurilloProfessor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs

Comparative Political Studies, Best Article Award, 2014

Kenneth PrewittCarnegie Professor of Public Affairs

Elected President (incoming) of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

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Department of Sociology

Karen BarkeyProfessor of Sociology

Henry Luce Foundation Grant, 2014–2016, for Religious Toleration and Plural Democracies

GSAS and GSAC 2015 Faculty Mentoring Award

Awarded Alliance Program Innovative Co-Teaching Grant for her Fall 2014 course “Ethno-religious Identity and Politics in the Middle East and South Asia”

Peter BearmanJonathan R. Cole Professor of Sociology

2015 Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching

Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Thomas DiPreteGiddings Professor of Sociology

Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Social Demography from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Population for his bookThe Rise of Women: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What It Means for American Schools

Outstanding Book Award for his book The Rise of Women: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What it Means for American Schools from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Section on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility

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Herbert GansRobert S. Lynd Professor Emeritus of Sociology

2014 William Foote Whyte Distinguished Career Award

Shamus KhanAssociate Professor of Sociology

Named editor of Public Culture, a reviewed interdisciplinary journal that explores how cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena

Alondra NelsonProfessor of Sociology; Dean of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Elected Chair of the Science, Knowledge and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association

Jonathan RiederProfessor of Sociology


Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellowship

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Saskia SassenRobert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology

Directeur d’études invité, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris

Elected to membership in the Royal Academy of the Sciences of the Netherlands

Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres, Ministry of Culture, France

Named Eminent Scholar in Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Studies by the International Studies Association, 2014

Best architecture books of 2014 by The Guardian for her book Expulsions

Prize for best article, “When Territory Deborders Territoriality,” Territory, Politics, Governance

Carla SheddAssistant Professor of Sociology

Scholar-in-Residence, Vera Institute of Justice, New York City, Spring 2015

David StarkArthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

Alliance Visiting Professorship

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Ramin BahraniAssociate Professor of Professional Practice of Film

Venice International Film Festival (2014), SIGNIS Award Honorable Mention

Venice International Film Festival (2014), Young Jury Members, Best Film

Ira DeutchmanProfessor of Professional Practice of Film

Founders Visionary Award, Traverse City Film Festival

James SchamusProfessor of Professional Practice of Film

Outfest Achievement Award, Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival

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Theatre Program

Anne BogartProfessor of Theatre Arts

Honorary Doctorate, Cornish College of the Arts

David Henry HwangAssociate Professor of Theatre Arts

Most Influential New Yorkers, National Association of Asian American Professionals, NYC

Distinguished Artist Award, International Society for the Performing Arts, NYC

Visual Arts Program

Sanford BiggersAssistant Professor of Professional Practice of Visual Arts

Guna S. Mundheim Fellow in the Visual Arts, The American Academy, Berlin, Germany

The Joyce Foundation Award


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Susan BernofskyAssociate Professor of Writing

PEN Promotes Grant (English PEN), 2014

2015 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize

2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize [two prizes] for her translation of Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel End of Days

Deborah EisenbergProfessor of Writing

2015 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story

Outfest Achievement Award, Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival

Mark StrandProfessor of Writing

Selected for the National Book Award’s longlist for his 2014 book, Collected Poems

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